Want a ‘sure-shot’ way to make your companion pleased this Valentine’s Day? Give them the present of a Covid-19 vaccine, a hilarious parody advertisement suggests.
The parody advertisement of the Pfizer vaccine, initial shared on American late-evening speak show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has now gone viral on social media, earning appreciation from businessman Anand Mahindra and actress Nafisa Ali Sodhi. Mr Mahindra tweeted it out as a “readymade advertising brief” to Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla.
Mr Poonawalla’s enterprise is manufacturing the vaccine created by AstraZeneca and Oxford University – Covishield. Last month, he told The Spuzz that the Serum Institute produces 5,000 doses just about every minute of the vaccine.
Vaccines against coronavirus are in enormous demand across the planet as nations start to lift restrictions induced by the pandemic.
In this advertisement, a man is noticed proposing to his girlfriend with a dose of vaccine alternatively of a ring. “Inoculate yourself… with love,” the ad suggests prior to concluding with a shot of the Pfizer vaccine which is “not available anywhere”.
Anand Mahindra praised the ad as hilarious and tweeted it to his 8 million followers, tagging Adar Poonawalla. “@adarpoonawalla You have a readymade advertising brief. Vaccines are forever…” he quipped.
Hilarious. @adarpoonawalla you have a readymade marketing short. Vaccines are forever… pic.twitter.com/smFjCBTH6l
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) February 11, 2021
The video has been watched more than 1 lakh instances on the microblogging platform considering that becoming shared by Mr Mahindra, garnering a ton of amused reactions.
“Valentine Vaccination!” joked one Twitter user. “Cupid strikes with a needle,” a different stated.
Actress Nafisa Ali Sodhi also shared the parody ad on Instagram. “What a great add … wishing all of us the best,” she wrote.
In August final year, Adar Poonawalla had responded to Anand Mahindra’s tweet about manufacturing a vaccine against the virus, writing that his scientists had been “working on it”.